I feel sorry for you guys. Our current drummer is *awesome*.
He drops his sticks a lot. But that's just rock and roll, baby!
And he doesn't know where the one is. But he can find it by randomly banging his snare until he gets on, like a man boarding a moving train. That's kind of his jazzy side.
Also, he doesn't really know how the songs go, or what they are called, or how they end. But it's awesome. Those extra couple of drum hits after all the rest of us stop playing are like those old sci-fi/horror movies that go, "The End???" at the end. It adds to our mystique.
He needs me to cue him for every change. By "cue" I don't mean nod when a change is coming. I need to go up to him and kind of sing how the next part goes. So basically he is teaching me how to do background vocals while I play, which is really going to make me a better musician.
I think the most awesome thing about our drummer, if I *had* to choose one thing, is that he insists on always playing really, really stoned.
--Bomb
